{"id":8193,"date":"2018-06-14T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newinsights.oeb.global\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2018-06-21T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:37:44","slug":"the-rise-of-learning-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/oeb-insights\/the-rise-of-learning-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of Learning Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It has been 50 years since Nobel laureate Herb Simon, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and expert in artificial intelligence, called for a new field of technical competence in the learning domain that he called learning engineering.<\/b><\/p>\n

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During the intervening 50 years, a number of professional disciplines and practices have recognized the opportunities and challenges that microprocessor-based technologies unleashed on their unsuspecting stakeholders, and have begun to address the evolving technological developments relevant to their disciplines in a variety of ways. In some cases, new disciplines emerged from these amalgamations, including educational technology; instructional design and development, (and the associated disciplines of learning design and development and experience design and development following in its stead). Digital pedagogy and digital librarianship have led the way on envisioning and enabling new forms of learning engagement, while learning analytics, actively borrowing from social science research, data science, medicine, biology and astronomy continue to actively expand into machine learning deep learning and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, despite exponential growth in the development of learning technologies, there has been relatively little support specific to the professional development of the engineers that have been increasingly called upon to participate in designing, building, and deploying new learning technologies. These professionals require a unique skill set that merges engineering and systems thinking with learning science and theories of human development.<\/p>\n

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Recognizing a need to support the development of learning engineering as a profession and an academic discipline, in December 2017 the Standards Association of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) approved the creation of a new program. The IEEE Industry Connections Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE \/ VERLINKEN) was formed to define and support this burgeoning field and to advocate for the development of both the professional and academic disciplines of learning engineering.<\/p>\n

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ICICLE \u2013 Developing the Profession of Learning Engineering<\/b><\/p>\n

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Planned as a two-year activity, ICICLE is an open forum and community-driven platform that currently comprises more than 50 organizations in industry, academia, and government with a common goal of supporting the development of learning engineering.<\/p>\n

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In addition to principles of engineering design and learning science, ICICLE proposes that that the Learning Engineer will need to understand:<\/p>\n